Back to Exercise

After three days doing physio observation, and a say to recover, it was time to get back into training. I think the three days spent mostly on my feet in work type shoes hadn't done my back any good (no heel raise for a start), and I still had a few niggles. I did do 45 minutes of abs and weights at the gym on Thursday, and then Friday got back to it more seriously.

I started with a six mile run done at sub-140 bpm pace. AFter the first few miles of the ten miler on Sunday, where I'd caned the first few miles and still been under 140 (see previous post), I expected great things. As it happened, I was quite disappointed, although if you compare today's run with those a month back, it was the best six miler on the Nonsuch route. So - that's progress, to be disappointed with one of my best times!

I got to the half way point in sub 9 minute mile time, and the return journey was in sub 10 min/mile time - although I did sprint the last bit to achieve that, so a bit of a cheat! As you can see the HR went high - not sure why - it just wouldn't seem to come down in some places that it normally did. I have had a dodgy stomach the last couple of days - not sure if this is anything to do with it.

Anyway - the next mornign I'm niggling slightly - the lowr end of the ITB being the most noticeable, but overall not too bad.

I went to the gym later, did about an hour of upper body weights, abs stuff and some gluteus minimums/abductor stuff too (a weak area according to the fizz), and then was going to do lots of swimming, but the pool was rather packed. I practised the sighting stuff that I'd done with Pink.